Long Term Unemployment Rate in the United States increased to 1.07 percent in July from 0.97 percent in June of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Long Term Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

In October 2024, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) stood at about 1.61 million in the United States. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends.

This dataset provides values for LONG TERM UNEMPLOYMENT RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

In 2024, the long-term unemployment rate was *** percent in France. Long-term means that a person has not been employed for at least 12 months. Since 2004, this rate has varied between *** and *** percent. And since 2016, it has been decreasing in France.

In 2023, there were over 1.1 million people unemployed for 27 weeks or longer, amounting to 19.36 percent of all unemployed in the U.S. Among all unemployed, aged between 25 and 34 years, about 19.93 percent of people were unemployed for 27 weeks or longer.

Graph and download economic data for Number Unemployed for 27 Weeks & over (UEMP27OV) from Jan 1948 to Jul 2025 about 27 weeks +, civilian, 16 years +, household survey, unemployment, and USA.

Long-term unemployment surged in the United States in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (2007-2008) and Great Recession (2008-2009). The long-term unemployment rate did not fall below its pre-Great Recession levels until March 2020, which was caused by the surge in the numbers of regular unemployed persons in the U.S., not by a decrease in the absolute number of long-term unemployed. Long-term unemployment is defined as a worker who is seeking work having been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer. This is a serious problem in the United States as many long-term unemployed workers have low levels of educational attainment, have worked in declining industries in the past (such as some primary or manufacturing sectors), or come from minority groups. Active labor market policies are used to address these issues, with schemes such as training and job-sharing schemes aiming to improve the job prospects of the long-term unemployed. The question of whether automation and other structural changes to the economy are causing a secular increase in long-term unemployment is a key issue facing the U.S. in the 21st century.

In 2025 thus far, over one million people were long-term unemployed in Germany. This was an increase compared to 2024, in which roughly 972,000 people were long-term unemployed.

In 2023, about 23.51 percent of unemployed Black or African American individuals had been jobless for at least 27 weeks. This was slightly higher amongst Asian individuals, at 23.55 percent. See the monthly unemployment rate in the U.S. here.

This table shows the percentage of unemployed who were jobless for 27 weeks or longer in the United States in 2014, by state. In 2014, about 40 percent of the unemployed in Florida had been jobless for 27 weeks or longer.

Long Term Unemployment Rate in Greece increased to 5.30 percent in the first quarter of 2025 from 5.10 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Greece Long Term Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Long Term Unemployment Rate in Finland increased to 2.10 percent in the first quarter of 2025 from 1.70 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024. This dataset provides - Finland Long Term Unemployment Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

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Long Term Unemployment Rate in Sweden increased to 1.90 percent in the first quarter of 2025 from 1.70 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024. This dataset provides - Sweden Long Term Unemployment Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Unemployment rate and long-term unemployment rate by age group and sex.

In 2023, approximately 19.62 percent of unemployed individuals in the United States who held prior employment in the management, professional, and related occupations had been jobless for at least 27 weeks.

Unemployment by age and duration (seasonally adjusted). These estimates are sourced from the Labour Force Survey, a survey of households. These are official statistics in development.

The long-term unemployment rate expresses the number of long-term unemployed aged 15-74 as a percentage of the active population of the same age. Long-term unemployed (12 months and more) comprise persons aged at least 15, who are not living in collective households, who will be without work during the next two weeks, who would be available to start work within the next two weeks and who are seeking work (have actively sought employment at some time during the previous four weeks or are not seeking a job because they have already found a job to start later). The total active population (labour force) is the total number of the employed and unemployed population. The duration of unemployment is defined as the duration of a search for a job or as the period of time since the last job was held (if this period is shorter than the duration of the search for a job). The indicator is based on the EU Labour Force Survey.

This statistic presents the rate of long-term unemployment, in France, from the first quarter of 2017 to the second quarter of 2025, by gender. It reveals that *** percent of French women were unemployed for at least one year in Q2 2025.

As of 2023, Hungary's unemployment rate totaled **** percent, and over a third of these people were long-term unemployed. Over the observed years, the highest proportion of long-term unemployed in the total unemployed population was recorded in 2013 at nearly ** percent.